

Tons of different style kits to pick from. Maybe they do more for you than you originally thought or explored. Addictive Drums 2 from XLN Audio is the perfect all-around drum library plugin, featuring incredible libraries to choose from and a great sampling engine.


Anyone who doesn't understand some of the benefits of drum maps, please check out the video on my website about the topic. Since I always use the vdrums to input my drums and I typically send that back out to the vdrums brain for hearing the sound and usually mixing it in as audio, everything is just automatically setup with my default/custom drum map. It has a whole library of 1000s of beats (depending on the version of AD2 that you get) that you can manipulate according to your wish to create new pieces of your own. The velocity display is also more sensible in this view than the controller info at the bottom of the pane is for drums (though I think you can turn this part on in a regular midi grid). XLN Audio’s Addictive Drums 2 Virtual Drum kit is a VST that offers usability, advanced features, presets, and high-quality sounds. Also, since drums are percussive and the note length is irrelevant, the notes are more logically displayed to me in the drum map view. If you happen to want to split a midi drum track to hardware and various plugins (hardware snare, software cymbals, for example), drum maps make it easy to do. It is SO much better organized/modifyable to gets your individual instruments properly grouped as they are in a midi drum track rather than scattered about, in the order of a keyboard, and separated by other unused notes. Shmuelyosef, For me, drum maps are essential to being able to EASILY edit my drum midi. Cakewalk by Bandlab Propellerhead Reason 9.5 or higher (in AD2 the bus channel cannot be routed to separate output tracks) Reaper 4 & 5 Steinberg.
